By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
James Tomsheck, who was forced to resign as internal affairs for CBP, said the agency made it difficult for him to investigate internal complaints.
NPR reports that Tomscheck believes some Border Patrol agents aren’t being held accountable because of a culture that evades legal restraints.
Tomscheck said about a quarter of the 28 fatal shootings by agents and officers are highly suspicious, yet no one has paid any consequences.
“I believe the system was clearly engineered to interfere with our efforts to hold the Border Patrol accountable,” he says.
“Some persons in leadership positions in the Border Patrol were either fabricating or distorting information to give the outward appearance that it was an appropriate use of lethal force when in fact it was not.”
Tomscheck said he became a scapegoat for the problems in the agency.
